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Black wins in Oi

The Oi match between Habu and Tanigawa promises to be as close as their recent Kisei match, which was only decided in the final game. In that match all games were won by white, but in the Oi match the situation is completely reversed as Tanigawa won game four to make it four straight wins for the player with the black pieces. Here is the game with comments:

See the text version of the game with comments or play through the game in a Java viewer.

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